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Bikes in the age of tariffs

submitted by bobcha+(OP) on 2025-04-03 17:24:28 | 90 points 114 comments
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15. whenc+Ky[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-04-03 20:29:34
>>rstara+mx
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_of_origin
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36. davidw+2C[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-04-03 20:46:47
>>eesmit+zz
Depends where you send your money. I've used this in the past and as a huge bonus, I don't get added to 29494494292 mailing lists https://app.oath.vote/
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38. davidw+cC[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-04-03 20:48:24
>>osigur+vB
Maybe everyone will start buying from https://argonautcycles.com/ - right?
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49. type0+3F[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-04-03 21:02:25
>>teddyh+fB
Or replace it with child labor in US itself

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/29/florida-repu...

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74. m463+yV[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-04-03 22:47:40
>>yongji+pP
> what Trump will say tomorrow

I'm trying to figure out what the real story is.

When I read this I wonder if everything is a negotiating tactic:

"Trading partners have repeatedly blocked multilateral and plurilateral solutions, including in the context of new rounds of tariff negotiations and efforts to discipline non-tariff barriers."

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/regu... (wow, long url)

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87. tourma+Kh1[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-04-04 02:35:55
>>mmooss+RB
China, for one, has state-enforced labor of Uyghurs and other minorities: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ilab/against-their-will-the-sit...

And, while Mexico is trying to limit forced labor, they’re still one of our bigger exporters of forced labor: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ilab/resources/reports/child-la...

So it’s hardly a hypothetical. As for balancing benefits and costs, slave labor intrinsically weakens the value of labor to any country that imports, so ideally the US would tariff goods that are labor intensive from countries that practice slave labor. In general, taking China off of the UN Human Rights Council would be a good show (for what little the UN does), and countries that oppose slavery should tariff the countries that do it as well. I don’t want a blood diamond on my wife‘s finger, why would I want a blood apple in my mouth?

As for Trump, I believe he does so in part, not from an ethics perspective however. I imagine he views slave labor as undercutting US labor value, just as illegal immigration does, and that it plays some part in wrestling manufacturing away from China.

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